Starting a process from an application and reacting to it is workflow integrationWorkflow integrationDriving an external workflow or automation engine from an application and reacting to what it emits — triggering runs transactionally and importing the engine’s shape as a typed model.SAP and community, core adopted it, and the screen a person approves a task on is task and approval UIsTask and approval UIsThe screen a person approves something on — a workflow or process task rendered as a form, embedded in an inbox that supplies its context. Distinct from workflow integration, which is about driving the engine: this is the half a human touches, and its hard part is that it cannot run without the engine that normally feeds it.SAP only.
DomainAll ecosystems
Process & Workflow
Work that spans people and systems over time: business processes that are automated, and the workflow steps a person completes inside them.
Capabilities
Compare the concerns mapped here and open an ecosystem for its assessment. Artifact counts show providers; content counts show items linked directly to the capability.
CapabilityEcosystems
Process automation
Modelling and running a business process: the process flow, the forms people fill in, decision tables, bots for repetitive steps, and dashboards over the instances that run.
Responsibility assignment
Resolving who owns a business process, document or work item — a person or a team, from a condition-based rule or from a lookup mapped to an external system — and notifying them, so a framework can ask rather than hard-code an agent.
Status flows
Declaring in the model which status transitions an entity may make, so the runtime rejects a transition nobody declared and sets the status itself when the bound action runs, instead of a check written by hand in every handler.
Workflow integration
Driving an external workflow or automation engine from an application and reacting to what it emits — triggering runs transactionally and importing the engine’s shape as a typed model.
Each ecosystem hexagon shows its own coverage assessment. Coverage is never combined across ecosystems.
Artifacts
Providers, examples and other artifacts mapped to this domain, from SAP and the community. Each artifact appears once.
13 of 13 artifacts
ArtifactSignals
@cap-js/n8n@cap-js/n8nTriggers n8n workflows from a CAP application through @n8n.process.start annotations or a programmatic n8n service, resolving credentials from local config, a Cloud Foundry binding or a BTP destination.sap official, cap
@cap-js/process@cap-js/processStarts, cancels, suspends and resumes SAP Build Process Automation processes from a CAP service through entity annotations, or through a typed CDS service imported from the process definition.sap official, cap
@sap/cds@sap/cdsThe CAP Node.js runtime, which compiles the CDS model, serves the services declared in it, answers generic requests before any handler runs, and loads every cds-plugin.sap official, cap
ABAP-PRCABAP-PRCA framework for custom multi-step ABAP processes: a process class declares the states, and the framework runs each document through them and monitors the run.independent, abap
Only on SAP S/4HANA 2023 and 2025, on premise or private cloud: [SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition](external:sap-s4hana-cloud-public-edition) and the [SAP BTP ABAP environment](artifact:btp-abap-environment) are listed as coming soon, and a 2023 system has to leave out `ZABAP_PRC_EVENTS_SE_2025`, whose event-based side effects rely on APIs released with S/4HANA 2025. Not for a system that already carries a copy, because object names are global and two versions cannot live side by side, and not for a productive system by way of the `ZABAP_PRC_DEMO*` packages, which the README states are not intended for one and whose init classes delete and rebuild their own tables on every run. While the major version is 0 the public API is not stable: minor bumps carry breaking changes with no deprecation period, so productive use means pinning a tag and reading the CHANGELOG before every upgrade.
btp-user-role-requestbtp-user-role-requestThe files published for two Japanese blog posts on registering a BTP user with SAP Build Process Automation: three .mtar archives and a README that links the posts.independent, btp
No license Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
Functional boundary The repository publishes no licence, so reusing the files needs the author's permission. Nothing here says what each file contains, and the two posts they were published for are in Japanese.
cap-n8ncap-n8nMaps CAP onto n8n: a programmatic workflow API, @n8n.trigger annotations dispatched through the transactional outbox, and a typed cds import --from n8n.independent, cap
com.sap.cds:cds-feature-flowcom.sap.cds:cds-feature-flowAdds declarative status-transition flows to CAP Java: entry and target states on a bound action, validated and applied by a generic handler that answers 409 Conflict from a wrong state.sap official, cap
com.sap.cds:cds-feature-n8ncom.sap.cds:cds-feature-n8nTriggers n8n workflows from a CAP Java application through @n8n.process.start annotations or a programmatic N8nService, delivered by webhook calls through the CAP outbox.sap official, cap
Intelligent Situation AutomationIntelligent Situation AutomationResolves SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud business situations automatically by applying business rules, as an extension of Situation Handling with a dashboard over the time it saves.sap official, btp
SAP Build Process AutomationSAP Build Process AutomationSAP's low-code and no-code tool for business processes: graphical process models, drag-and-drop forms, decision tables and robotic process automation bots, with dashboards over running process instances.sap official, btp
SAP Responsibility Management serviceSAP Responsibility Management serviceA BTP service that resolves who is responsible for a business process, object or work item from condition-based rules or teams, and notifies them, for a workflow or another framework to call.sap official, btp
SF-MCPSF-MCPSixty-two purpose-built tools over SAP SuccessFactors' OData APIs — employee data, permissions, compliance reports and HR administration, asked for in plain language.independent, successfactors
This is HR data — the most regulated business data most organisations hold — reached through a connection that sees whatever its principal sees. Employee records under natural-language query is a decision for whoever owns that data, not a configuration choice.
Supply Chain RescueSupply Chain RescueA CAP and SAPUI5 demo of recovery from a supply disruption: the server calculates every proposal and an approver applies it, with a battery recall traced in an ABAP system through HANA Graph openCypher.independent, cap
No license Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
Functional boundary The data is illustrative: availability is binary and backup capacity unlimited, and the model carries no inventory; nothing in it is forecast or priced. The recall half runs only against classic ABAP, because its openCypher trace goes through ADBC, which is not released for ABAP Cloud, and it expects an SSH tunnel to the A4H system it was built against. A plain `npm start` passes no model key, so the agent cannot be used on a server started that way.
Related capabilities
Starting a process from an application and reacting to it is workflow integrationWorkflow integrationDriving an external workflow or automation engine from an application and reacting to what it emits — triggering runs transactionally and importing the engine’s shape as a typed model.SAP and community, core adopted it, and the screen a person approves a task on is task and approval UIsTask and approval UIsThe screen a person approves something on — a workflow or process task rendered as a form, embedded in an inbox that supplies its context. Distinct from workflow integration, which is about driving the engine: this is the half a human touches, and its hard part is that it cannot run without the engine that normally feeds it.SAP only.
Running the process itself is process automationProcess automationModelling and running a business process: the process flow, the forms people fill in, decision tables, bots for repetitive steps, and dashboards over the instances that run. Starting a process from an application and reacting to it is workflow integration, and the screen a person approves a task on is task and approval UIs.SAP only; the screen the responsible person acts on is task and approval UIsTask and approval UIsThe screen a person approves something on — a workflow or process task rendered as a form, embedded in an inbox that supplies its context. Distinct from workflow integration, which is about driving the engine: this is the half a human touches, and its hard part is that it cannot run without the engine that normally feeds it.SAP only.
Running the process itself is process automationProcess automationModelling and running a business process: the process flow, the forms people fill in, decision tables, bots for repetitive steps, and dashboards over the instances that run. Starting a process from an application and reacting to it is workflow integration, and the screen a person approves a task on is task and approval UIs.SAP only; the screen the responsible person acts on is task and approval UIsTask and approval UIsThe screen a person approves something on — a workflow or process task rendered as a form, embedded in an inbox that supplies its context. Distinct from workflow integration, which is about driving the engine: this is the half a human touches, and its hard part is that it cannot run without the engine that normally feeds it.SAP only.
Not input validationInput validationRejecting bad input before it reaches the database. While this can be done manually inside a handler, there are solutions in place to derive type, range, enum and mandatory checks from the model definitions.SAP and community, unassessed: that checks a value, this checks a transition.
Not workflow integrationWorkflow integrationDriving an external workflow or automation engine from an application and reacting to what it emits — triggering runs transactionally and importing the engine’s shape as a typed model.SAP and community, core adopted it: that drives an external engine, and this stays inside the model.
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A modern workflow for SAP Cloud Integration with CAP and Azure DevOpsA modern workflow for SAP Cloud Integration with CAP and Azure DevOpsCAP used to build tooling rather than an application: the development workflow for Cloud Integration is limited to what the Integration Suite offers, so the author puts a CAP service and Azure DevOps around it. An unusual use of the framework, and the reason to read it.marcel_schork62, published 2023-06-27
AI needs a foundation: A map of the plug-in ecosystem for CAPAI needs a foundation: A map of the plug-in ecosystem for CAPA map of the plug-ins for CAP (@sap/cds), official, community and independent, drawn across regions such as integration, performance and tooling, so that a team can see what exists to reuse and what it would have to build: the question plugin authoring answers from the other side. SAP's abstract places CAP at the centre of its AI strategy, with model context protocol support, and the map is offered as the foundation under that. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Community Theater, Berlin), presented by Mike Zaschka, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Automate your Job Postings Using Generative AI (ChatGPT) & SAP Build Process Automation AppsAutomate your Job Postings Using Generative AI (ChatGPT) & SAP Build Process Automation AppsA process that drafts its own text: ChatGPT writing job postings, SAP Build Process Automation carrying them through approval, and CAP in between. Presented as a generic pattern the author expects to be adapted rather than copied.shivamshukla12, published 2023-08-10
CAP Developers - Call to Action to mitigate and Apply Solution provided in SAP Note 3747787CAP Developers - Call to Action to mitigate and Apply Solution provided in SAP Note 3747787Four malicious npm package versions published on 29 April 2026 that exfiltrate credentials and propagate into adjacent repositories, and what a CAP developer should check. A security advisory rather than a technique, and dated precisely for that reason.Yogananda, published 2026-05-01
CAP Heaven? Not Yet — But You Can See It from HereCAP Heaven? Not Yet — But You Can See It from HereAn assessment from someone with Java, Azure and AWS behind them as well as ABAP and Fiori, which is a rarer vantage point than it sounds. The title is the verdict.published 2026-02-07
CAP is important because it's not importantCAP is important because it's not importantAn essay rather than a technique: what CAP actually is, what it gives you, and the case for treating it as foundational precisely because it is not the interesting part of an application. Written in 2019, when that argument still had to be made, and the title is the argument. Also recorded as a Tech Aloud podcast episode and a CodeTalk, both linked from the post.published 2019-11-06
CAP, RAP, or Both: Stop Hiding Behind 'It Depends'CAP, RAP, or Both: Stop Hiding Behind 'It Depends'Opens by refusing the answer every other post on this gives — "both are complementary, choose based on context" — and then commits to a framework, including the parts usually left out: the staffing bias behind the decision, and what to do about a landscape with thousands of Z-objects. Argument, not tutorial.published 2026-04-09
CAP: The Road Ahead - Simplicity in an AI EraCAP: The Road Ahead - Simplicity in an AI EraDevtoberfest 2026 session CAP10, from the head of SAP's Cloud Application Programming Model: forty minutes of live building rather than slides, on the argument that the cheapest code in an AI project is code nobody has to generate. Claude Code builds an invoice-matching workspace from cds init onwards, and each step is one the framework answers rather than the agent: a 42-line domain model that @sap/cds serves as OData and Fiori elements with a status flow, data privacy and change-tracking annotations that produce audit log entries in the console and would reach the SAP Audit Log service once deployed, an imported S/4HANA supplier data product, and semantic matching from a local embedding model after @cap-js/ai is added. The last three steps are annotations: @mcp beside @odata turns the service into an MCP server that a second Claude session queries through @cap-js/mcp, an agent annotation adds the A2A protocol with an agent card and an audit log entry for the agent task, and a skill file gives the agent the matching policy.SAP Developers, published 2026-09-25
Consuming SAP Build API's made easy with SAP Cloud SDK in your CAP applicationConsuming SAP Build API's made easy with SAP Cloud SDK in your CAP applicationReaching into SBPA from CAP the other way round — reading its tasks and workflows rather than starting them. The author starts from the plain Axios version and says what it costs: the connection and the authentication are the work, not the call. Cloud SDK is used to generate a typed client from the OpenAPI document and then to resolve the connection through either a service binding or a destination, shown for client credentials and for user token exchange.maheshpalavalli, published 2023-02-08
Consuming SAP Build API's made easy with SAP Cloud SDK in your CAP application
Workflow integration has changed twice since this was published, most recently in @cap-js/n8n 0.0.1, 2026-08-27. Affects Runnable code.
Declarative Programming in CAP: Less Code, More ValueDeclarative Programming in CAP: Less Code, More ValueAn argument for annotations over handlers, made from the case where it is most obvious: repetitive validation logic that could be declared instead of written. Describes what you want rather than how to get it, and lets the runtime decide the how.published 2026-02-05
Don't "let it crash", is this the new CAP guideline?Don't "let it crash", is this the new CAP guideline?Dinu traces a change in error handling in CAP's Node.js runtime: @sap/cds@8.2.0 adds a cds.server.shutdown_on_uncaught_errors config flag, defaulting to true, but invoking an operation with an undefined variable no longer takes the server down, with or without the flag, where the same code crashed it on cds@6 and cds@7, and the author notes the old behaviour was already missing in cds@8.1. It still crashes with features.odata_new_adapter turned off to use the old OData parser, so it is the new OData adapter, like the REST adapter before it, that answers an uncaught error with a 500 instead of taking the process down.Dinu, published 2024-09-06
Everything new: Try out the latest features in CAPEverything new: Try out the latest features in CAPCAP (@sap/cds) gains the features this hands-on session works through: declarative constraints, which is the input validation concern, status flows as status transition flows, a cds REPL, extensibility through @sap/cds-oyster, and HCQL, which SAP's abstract calls CAP's native query-over-HTTP protocol, after an opening stretch of AI-driven app development. The abstract names the features and stops there; what each one does is not described. A TechEd 2026 hands-on session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Daniel Hutzel, Daniel Schlachter, Marc Huber and Tim Back, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Extensions for SAP Build Process Automation - Actions from CAP Node.js ServiceExtensions for SAP Build Process Automation - Actions from CAP Node.js ServiceThe direction of travel reversed: the CAP service is the thing being called, exposed as an Action so that a no-code process can consume it. Short by design — it is an introduction to a developer tutorial, and it says outright that the goal is to cover every step rather than to model a real use case.TJe, published 2023-01-13
Generate agentic workflows using SAP-managed n8n in Joule StudioGenerate agentic workflows using SAP-managed n8n in Joule StudioSAP-managed n8n inside Joule Studio generates a workflow from a business intent a developer states, and the workflow is then tested and deployed, consuming line-of-business application APIs, events and agents in SAP Business AI Platform: process automation with the workflow generated from intent, and agent tooling where the workflow calls agents. The generated workflow sends notifications to the Joule Work mobile app of SAP Joule, to Microsoft Teams or to Slack. SAP's abstract names the pieces and not how the generation or the n8n hosting works. A two-hour hands-on TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Rama Sulakshani Murari, Rumen Dimitrov, Seshadri Sreenivas Ramanarayanan and Venugopal Chembrakalathil, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Getting started with cds.ql in NodeJS for CAP - 101 on how to query dataGetting started with cds.ql in NodeJS for CAP - 101 on how to query dataWalks through cds.ql, the query API @sap/cds gives a Node.js CAP service's custom handlers, with worked SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE and INSERT examples against a sample schema — filters, AND/OR conditions, column projections, ordering, limiting, grouping and joining two entities through a schema view. An added correction notes that cds.tx(req) is no longer needed to run a query in newer CAP versions, contradicting the post's own original guidance.published 2022-06-21
Guide to Process Automation APIs - Part I - Getting StartedGuide to Process Automation APIs - Part I - Getting StartedExplains how to call SAP Build Process Automation's REST and OData APIs directly: OAuth2 client credentials with a service key runs as the service, while a user token (OAuth2JWTBearer) runs as the calling person, which matters wherever an API records who acted — approving a task, or reading instances from a shared environment. Since the Public environment is deprecated as of the end of 2025, a call into any other environment also needs an environmentId query parameter.Dan_Wroblewski, published 2025-07-14
Hello React & Vue : SAP CAP’s New UI Layer is Here!Hello React & Vue : SAP CAP’s New UI Layer is Here!CAP gaining a UI layer for React and Vue, which changes the default assumption that the front end is UI5. Short, and the significance is larger than the length.Yogananda, published 2026-06-25
How Have SAP Customers Adopted n8nHow Have SAP Customers Adopted n8nA Devtoberfest 2026 session on what SAP customers are building with the standalone edition of n8n, from a partner who maintains an SAP OData node for it: use cases across purchase-to-pay, sales, finance and IT service, two live workflows, and the rules he works to — released SAP APIs only, no LLM in the decision path, exceptions to a person. The tool-choice half is where the edges hold: SAP Integration Suite is placed as the job for governed, high-volume system-to-system integration, and its MCP server is what the agent in the second demo reads SAP data through, while process automation is the concern the session sorts between document intake, approvals and the bot inventory that stays with RPA. The first demo is an order-confirmation check that reads a PDF, compares the lines against the purchase order over OData, asks a person, then writes the confirmation back.SAP Developers, published 2026-10-08
How to Approve/Reject Task via API in SAP Build Process AutomationHow to Approve/Reject Task via API in SAP Build Process AutomationWalks through the Workflow API's /task-instances PATCH call that SAP Build Process Automation exposes to approve or reject a user task from outside its Inbox, matching the instance ID from the Monitoring tab and the identifier of the button the approval form defines. Covers the permission split between an authenticated user, who needs the ProcessAutomationAdmin or ProcessAutomationParticipant role collection to appear as the one who completed the task, and Client Credentials, which completes it as a generic client identity, plus the error codes the API returns for a missing instance, an already-completed task or an invalid status.Dan_Wroblewski, published 2025-02-10
Navigating the road map for SAP Cloud ERP: Today, next, and beyondNavigating the road map for SAP Cloud ERP: Today, next, and beyondSAP's near-term and long-term plans for SAP Cloud ERP by theme: embedded AI, process automation, lifecycle management and extensibility, with timelines and adoption paths toward what SAP calls the Autonomous Enterprise. SAP Cloud ERP has no artifact here, so the edges are to the two concerns the road map names, Extensibility and Process automation; the abstract names no product or feature under either, and whether its process automation is SAP Build Process Automation is not stated. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin; also TM815V, virtual), presented by Lawrence Martin and Sasa Markovic, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
S/4HANA Custom Development - What happens in case of errors in BAPIs or RAP BOs?S/4HANA Custom Development - What happens in case of errors in BAPIs or RAP BOs?A Devtoberfest 2026 session on what a custom S/4HANA process does when a BAPI or a RAP business object fails. It is framed from project work rather than product development, with the same issues and challenges turning up on project after project, and it offers the ABAP Processing Center, ABAP-PRC, as what fills the gap it names in modern ABAP development. The edges rest on the opening, which states the session's subject as errors in S/4HANA custom development, read as error handling on the ABAP door, and names that framework.SAP Developers, published 2026-09-21
SAP Build Process Automation – Use Principal Propagation in Actions sample: CAP Node.js ServiceSAP Build Process Automation – Use Principal Propagation in Actions sample: CAP Node.js ServiceThe follow-up that carries the identity through. It takes the CAP service from the Actions tutorial and puts the calling user's identity behind it — an XSUAA instance, a trust configuration, an OAuthSAMLBearerAssertion destination, and the service changed to use that instance — so a step runs on behalf of a person rather than as the process.TJe, published 2023-06-22
SAP Build Process Automation – Use Principal Propagation in Actions sample: CAP Node.js Service
Workflow integration has changed twice since this was published, most recently in @cap-js/n8n 0.0.1, 2026-08-27. Affects A recipe.
SAP Build Process Automationで「グループ宛て承認ワークフロー」を構築するSAP Build Process Automationで「グループ宛て承認ワークフロー」を構築するWalks through building a group-addressed approval workflow in SAP Build Process Automation: a user group created in SAP Cloud Identity Services is bound to the app so an approval step can send one request to every group member's inbox at once, closing as soon as any one of them acts. The approval form shown in that inbox carries a Claim button that hides a claimed task from the other members, and the workflow's approval step binds its group recipients to the field the requester chose on the start form.takayuki_tanaka, published 2025-07-25
SAP CAPv7 - Node.js Highlights and ExperiencesSAP CAPv7 - Node.js Highlights and ExperiencesAn account of upgrading a 100+ table CAP Node.js project from v6 to v7, working through breaking changes in @sap/cds 7: event handlers now always receive an array, service paths move under /odata/v4/... unless serve_on_root is set, and cds-serve replaces cds run. It goes deepest on the GraphQL plugin, @cap-js/graphql: the /graphql endpoint it serves, Composition results wrapped in a nodes connection, and offset-based pagination reached through OData's top and skip rather than GraphQL's own limit and offset.published 2023-08-03
SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP) - start hereSAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP) - start hereThe orientation post for CAP, published in 2018 and revised in 2020 and again in 2021 with help credited to Iwona Hahn — which is the unusual part: a starting-point index that was maintained rather than left to rot, and says so at the top. Read as the shape of what a newcomer was pointed at, and as a marker of how much of that changed inside three years.published 2018-10-10
SAP Codejam on Event Driven Build ProcessSAP Codejam on Event Driven Build ProcessA hands-on CodeJam walkthrough of an event-driven flow: a Business Partner creation event from a simulated S/4HANA Cloud system is published to SAP Advanced Event Mesh, where the author configures topics, queues and subscriptions and forwards it through a REST Delivery Point to SAP Build Process Automation, which runs a business process with a human approval step and an asynchronous callback to a third-party system. The event producer stays unaware of its consumers, with SAP Build acting purely as an orchestrator reacting to events.Sharathmg, published 2026-02-03
SAP MDG Cloud Ready Mode: 5 Solution Patterns, Zero BADIs: How We implemented 5 typical requirementsSAP MDG Cloud Ready Mode: 5 Solution Patterns, Zero BADIs: How We implemented 5 typical requirementsA field report from an 80%-complete SAP MDG-BP Cloud Ready Mode implementation, showing five requirements it met without BAdIs or modification: business-partner context and the MDG UI shown inside the My Inbox app, rule-based multi-step approval routing with exclusive-choice nodes, agent determination through BTP role collections, and role-specific Fiori App Variants that give Finance Experts only bank-detail fields while Approvers get full write access. Each pattern works the same way underneath — a BTP Workflow service task reads business-partner attributes over OData into the workflow context, and a user task, route or app variant reacts to it — built with key-user extensibility or SAP Business Application Studio rather than custom ABAP.steffen_ulmer, published 2026-06-01
Trigger an SAP Build Process Automation Workflow from CAP Using the @cap-js/process PluginTrigger an SAP Build Process Automation Workflow from CAP Using the @cap-js/process PluginA step-by-step setup for starting a Build Process Automation workflow from CAP through the plugin rather than through direct REST calls, which is how it had to be done before. Covers both ends: deploying the process in the SBPA designer and finding the workflow instance id it produces, then wiring the CAP side to it. Written against the first beta, released 26 April 2026, so the shape is settled but the surface may not be.Jacky Liu, published 2026-07-02
Triggering SAP Build Process Automation Processes from SAP Cloud Application Programming (CAP) AppsTriggering SAP Build Process Automation Processes from SAP Cloud Application Programming (CAP) AppsThe two routes out of a CAP application into a process, side by side: a destination with OAuth2ClientCredentials, the same destination with principal propagation, and Event Mesh with a CloudEvents payload. Written before @cap-js/process existed, so it is the record of what the plugin now does for you — useful when the plugin does not fit, and useful for reading what it is actually doing underneath.ATheobaldt, published 2024-12-09
Triggering SAP Build Process Automation Processes from SAP Cloud Application Programming (CAP) Apps
Workflow integration has changed twice since this was published, most recently in @cap-js/n8n 0.0.1, 2026-08-27. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
What's new in SAP Cloud Application Programming Model – January 2026What's new in SAP Cloud Application Programming Model – January 2026December and January together: the new @assert feature, revised documentation, CDS editor work, and Kyma deployment additions.published 2026-02-09
What's new in SAP Cloud Application Programming Model – November 2025What's new in SAP Cloud Application Programming Model – November 2025The November edition, led by the Status Transition Flows feature presented at reCAP 2025.published 2025-12-08
What's new in SAP Cloud Application Programming Model – September 2025What's new in SAP Cloud Application Programming Model – September 2025The monthly release communication for CAP itself, and this edition carries the MCP servers and the Application Frontend Service integration. Kept because a dated list of what shipped when is the only record of that; three editions are indexed here rather than the whole run.published 2025-10-14
Workflow development using SAP Cloud Application Programming Model and SAP Build Process AutomationWorkflow development using SAP Cloud Application Programming Model and SAP Build Process AutomationAn argument about where logic belongs rather than a wiring guide. The author's case is that pulling mapping, preprocessing and JavaScript into the process model makes it unreadable to the process owner who has to maintain it, so the model should stay thin and CAP should hold the domain model, the authorisation annotations, the events and the API consumption. Each of those is then shown in turn against SBPA — including publishing CAP events into process visibility.Venugopal, published 2025-02-18
Agentic AI & AI AgentsAgentic AI & AI AgentsSAP's target picture for AI agents: Joule as the engagement layer — Joule Work, Joule Assistants, Joule Agents — with custom agents from customers, partners and SAP teams connecting through A2A for agent-to-agent collaboration and MCP for tool connectivity, on the SAP Business AI Platform. It says up front that parts are not generally available yet, in particular bidirectional communication with third-party agents through the Agent Gateway, so it reads as direction with the building blocks named rather than a design to copy today.published 2026-08-27
AI-native North Star architecture — Platform LayerAI-native North Star architecture — Platform LayerThe platform layer of SAP's North Star architecture, the chapter that says where agents run and what a developer builds them with. It names an AI Golden Path built on the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model, the ABAP Cloud development model with RAP and the SAP Fiori design system, and a managed agent runtime on SAP BTP that is designed to provide software development kits for building agents in any framework, an agent sandbox, container-hosted execution, a skills registry and continuous evaluations, which is the ground agent tooling covers. Agents are extended without changing their code through four patterns, the first of them tool extensibility through the Model Context Protocol, the concern MCP servers is named for; the process-layer chapter adds that a pro-code path with a standardised agent SDK and a prompt-driven path through the Joule Studio solution produce the same code artifact on the same runtime. It describes a design SAP intends rather than products that exist, and the SDK and the registry it names have no entry here yet.published 2026-05-13
AI-native North Star architecture — Platform Layer
Agent tooling changed in @cap-js/agents 0.9.1, 2026-08-14. Affects A reference.
Generative AI on SAP BTPGenerative AI on SAP BTPThe reference shape for a generative AI application on BTP: a CAP backend, SAP HANA Cloud holding data and embeddings for similarity search through its vector engine, and the Generative AI Hub in SAP AI Core as the single access point to foundation models. It shows retrieval-augmented generation on that stack and names the CAP plugins and SDKs that connect the pieces, for both Cloud Foundry and Kyma.published 2025-09-02
Generative AI on SAP BTP
LLM integration changed in @cap-js/ai 1.0.0, 2026-04-28. Affects A reference.
Integrate and Extend with SAP Build Process AutomationIntegrate and Extend with SAP Build Process AutomationSAP's reference architecture for SAP Build Process Automation integrating and extending SAP and non-SAP solutions in cloud and hybrid landscapes, the ground process automation covers. Processes start from events, APIs, schedules or forms, the forms built in SAP Build Process Automation, as UI5 applications or in SAP Build Apps; they reach other systems through the SAP Connectivity service with actions over APIs from sources that include CAP and RAP OData destinations and SAP Business Accelerator Hub specifications, and users reach them through SAP Build Work Zone and SAP Mobile Start, with SAP Task Center as the place tasks are managed. Decisions, Process Visibility, Processes and Automations come inside the one subscription and cannot be decoupled from it; CAP appears only as a source of API actions, and the examples are business scenarios such as mass job requisitions in SAP SuccessFactors.published 2025-05-14
Integrating and Extending JouleIntegrating and Extending JouleSAP's reference architecture for SAP Joule across SAP cloud applications: a request is checked against a Scenario Catalog of the applications' skills and a Knowledge Catalog answered by retrieval-augmented generation, combined with the user's roles and history, sent to an LLM available through the generative AI hub, and, where a Joule function is needed, turned into a call to the backend. Its identity page is the authentication path: each user sits in the Identity Directory of Cloud Identity Services with a Global User ID, Identity Provisioning synchronises role assignments into SAP Build Work Zone, whose navigation service decides which functions a user may call, and the Destination service exchanges the user's token to call a function in the user's name. Its extension page covers Joule Studio in SAP Build, where Joule skills automate rule-based tasks over APIs and AI agents plan and reason with models and document grounding from SAP AI Core, the ground agent tooling covers; a later Joule Studio page describes a managed Joule Studio Runtime on the SAP Business AI Platform, which has no entry here.published 2026-03-16
Multitenant SaaS Application using CAPMultitenant SaaS Application using CAPSAP's reference architecture for a multitenant SaaS application on BTP built with CAP: one deployment serving many tenants with logically separated data, the subscription and onboarding flow, and the BTP services the design leans on. Written for partners and line-of-business teams building on BTP, and it is SAP's own side of the shape multitenancy takes on BTP.published 2025-01-31
SAP Document AISAP Document AISAP's reference architecture for SAP Document AI, first as SAP composes the service on BTP for document extraction: OCR, pretrained models, customer-defined schemas and LLM calls through SAP AI Core and its Prompt Registry in one pipeline, with tenant-isolated persistence in SAP HANA Cloud, PostgreSQL and an object store. Its scenario pages then lay out a solution in three layers: intake through Outlook and SharePoint inbound channels, the workspace UI, the Joule Work mobile app or the upload API; classification and extraction with a confidence score per field, automatic confirmation above a threshold and review of the rest in the workspace; and posting through outbound channels, directly to a REST API, through an SAP Integration Suite flow, or through a CAP service that maps the fields and calls SAP S/4HANA over OData. Enrichment beyond the service's own master data lookup is left to a CAP application or an Integration Suite flow triggered from an outbound channel, and direct API posting leaves error handling, retries and monitoring to the application.published 2026-06-03
Recent changes
- Process automationcore coverage revised
Reassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): a rule-based SAP service for S/4HANA situations joined the providers and changes the shape of the answer. State stays core-only.
- Workflow integrationcore coverage revised
Reassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the CAP Java n8n plugin is SAP-official and uses the outbox, so outbox dispatch is no longer only a community addition. Source: the plugin's README. State unchanged.
- Workflow integrationcore coverage revised
@cap-js/n8n published by the core team. The community plugin predates it and goes further, so the boundary is real rather than duplicated.
- Workflow integrationcore coverage revised
States renamed to describe who is present rather than to interpret intent. left-open-on-purpose asserted a motive; core-and-community states a fact, with relationship carrying the intent separately.
- Workflow integrationA second engine, n8n, gained the same first-party treatment the core had already given SAP Build Process Automation. Before it, triggering an n8n workflow from CAP meant the independent sleibach/cap-n8ncap-n8nMaps CAP onto n8n: a programmatic workflow API, @n8n.trigger annotations dispatched through the transactional outbox, and a typed cds import --from n8n.independent, cap plugin or a hand-wired HTTP call; after it,
@n8n.process.starton an action or event, or the programmaticn8nservice, triggers a workflow with credentials resolved through config, a Cloud Foundry binding or a BTP destination.Makes stale: Guidance that n8n triggering from CAP has no SAP-official path and is community territory only. Since August 2026 there is an SAP-published plugin alongside the independent one.
- Workflow integrationThe core gained a first-party way to drive SAP Build Process Automation from a CAP service. Before it, starting or managing a process meant hand-rolling calls against the workflow API through a destination; after it, a built-in generic ProcessService covers start, suspend, resume and cancel without any import, and importing a specific process additionally generates a typed CDS service with ProcessInputs, ProcessOutputs and ProcessInstance types.
Makes stale: Guidance that calling SAP Build Process Automation from CAP is always a hand-written HTTP integration. Since March 2026 there is a first-party plugin for it — though the typed, process-specific service still does not work locally and needs a hybrid or production connection.